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first letter of the Latin alphabet

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  • ISO basic Latin alphabet
  • German alphabet (B, 1)
  • Dano-Norwegian alphabet
  • Czech alphabet (Á, 1)
  • Esperanto alphabet (B, 1)
  • Breton alphabet (B, 1)
  • Icelandic alphabet (Á, 1)
  • English alphabet (B, 1)
  • Latin alphabet
  • French alphabet (B, 1)
  • Polish alphabet (Ą, 1)
  • Romanian alphabet (Ă, 1)
  • Slovak alphabet (Á, 1)
  • Vietnamese alphabet (Ă, 1)
  • Turkish alphabet (B, 1)
  • Italian alphabet (B, 1)
  • Finnish alphabet (B, 1)
  • Ă
  • Â
  • African reference alphabet
  • Africa Alphabet
  • Benin National Alphabet
  • General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
  • Kazakh Latin alphabet 2017 version (unknown value, 1, please wait for an independent "Aʼ" to change the P156 value)
  • Dutch alphabet (B, 1)
  • Latvian alphabet (Ā, 1)
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Authority file

Wikidata Q9659
Library of Congress authority ID: sh2015000917
BabelNet ID: 00000146n
J9U ID: 987007410982805171

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Letter shapes

  • sans vs. serif

    sans vs. serif

  • Roman vs. italic

    Roman vs. italic

  • geometric sans

    geometric sans

  • Modern Script A

    Modern Script A

Minuscule

  • double- vs. single-story

    double- vs. single-story

  • angled upper story

    angled upper story

Capital

  • drawn like minuscule

    drawn like minuscule

  • Archaic

    Archaic

Verticals

  • tapered

    tapered

  • curved

    curved

  • parallel

    parallel

Top

  • pointed

    pointed

  • square

    square

  • round

    round

  • flat

    flat

  • verticals meet below the top

    verticals meet below the top

Bar

  • angled

    angled

  • curved

    curved

  • V-shaped

    V-shaped

  • missing

    missing

  • double

    double

  • crosses both verticals

    crosses both verticals

  • loops into the right-hand vertical

    loops into the right-hand vertical

  • loops into the left-hand vertical

    loops into the left-hand vertical

  • on the baseline

    on the baseline

  • dot

    dot

Cursive

  • English script

    English script

  • Kurrent

    Kurrent

  • Italian script

    Italian script

  • Italian script

    Italian script

  • Sütterlin

    Sütterlin

Uncial

  • Uncial

  • Semi-uncial

    Semi-uncial

  • Insular

    Insular

  • Gaelic/Irish Insular

    Gaelic/Irish Insular

Blackletter

  • Fraktur

    Fraktur

  • Schwabacher

    Schwabacher

  • Gebrochene Grotesk

    Gebrochene Grotesk

  • Blackletter A

  • Fraktur A (Old English font)

    Fraktur A (Old English font)

Origin

  • Egyptian Hieroglyph

  • Proto-semitic ox

  • Phoenician Aleph

  • Greek Alpha

  • Etruscan A

  • Early Cyrillic letter Azu

  • Cyrillic letter A

Descendants

Other signs

  • English: Fingerspelling handshape Deutsch: Fingeralphabet-Handzeichen

    English: Fingerspelling handshape

    Deutsch: Fingeralphabet-Handzeichen

  • English: Semaphore Deutsch: Winkeralphabet-Signal

    English: Semaphore

    Deutsch: Winkeralphabet-Signal

  • English: International signal flag Deutsch: Internationale Signalflagge

    English: International signal flag

    Deutsch: Internationale Signalflagge

  • English: Braille sign Deutsch: Braillezeichen

    English: Braille sign

    Deutsch: Braillezeichen

  • English: Morse code

    Deutsch: Morsezeichen

Pronunciation

Audio files

  • Spoken Wikipedia - German: A

See also